The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-15
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Local and state Notes.


Of new steel rails weighing seventy poundsto the
yard
The Chicago & Indiana Coal road increased its
earnings this year. the first week of October,
over those OF the corresponding week, 1856.
S. 723.
II is stated that the several railroad mems
ganiza, at Louisville do not approve of the
strike in aucurated on the L., G. q L. road by
the brak men.
The new Wabash settlement is understood to
be on the basis OF q foreclosure OF the underly
ing mortgages TO admit of a new consoli-
dated morts age.
The aufom attic whistle for crossings is being
tested on the Pennsylvania road. lever on
the engine strikes a projecting iron on the track
and the necessary footing follows
On Nov l. tie new local passenger tariff takes
effect on the Bes-line system. Copies of the
same will be posted at all railway stations on
the line In most cases il is reduction in
rates.
The Louisville. Evansville g. St Louis road
Is this week placing 2. 0e0 tons of new steel rail
in its track The com pany is also doing
good deal in the way of ballastlng with broken
stone.
Railroad men who know the erusty English
man who is general manager of the Chicago q
Atlantic are not surprised at the manner he and
his associates speak of the recent disaster on
that road
new ticket scaIper's Office is to be opened
on Illinois street under the Grand Hotel. The
firm name is Morton 81 Vandyke. Morton 10 an
old time scalper, aud for a tune ne was located
ut Des Moines, Ia
Work on the Louisville g. Texas road in course
pf construction along the bank of the Ohio river
the kentucky side has been dropped for the
time being, the company having run out OF funds
30 pay for the work.
President and General Manager Carson. of the
L., ". A. & c., and Superintendent Woodland,
were in Cincinnati yesterday, arranging with
the C., II. g. d. people for change In running
time of through trains
The Chicago. ST. Louis & Pittsburg road
harned in September $5ls,456; increase over
Earnings corresponding month. 1856, $34,9Sl.
Since the first of January the road has earned
f4,2l8,064 Increase this year. $747,Ol2
Coal traffic over the Terrs Haute & Indianap-
dis road is reaching olden time proportions.
loads OF block coal per day. The scarcity OF
anthracite coal and coke is greatly increasing
she demand for Indiana Goals.
The c.. l., St. L. & G. 10 testing on one of
it's branch trains the Goldsmith patent steam
heater The coaches are heated by steam from
the locomotive. should the test prove satisfac-
tory. the device will be introduced on all pas
Benger trains on the Big Four
The Lake Shore road is making important i'm
provements to its airline division between Elk
hart. Ind. and Toledo. This road in September
handled on it's Chicago division 30, 283 cars, an
increase over the number handled the CORE
spending month last year of 5.283 cars
On the Goth of this tn the Illinois Railroad
Company will to vote the question of
consolidating the Illinois division of the Indian
lpolis, Decatur & Springfield road with the In
diana division. This done, about the 18th of the
month the road will be taken out of the hands OF
O receiver.
The handsome earnings the roads are making,
almost without exception, and the lower rates
on a large per cent of the freight traffic at the
present time compared with one year ago has
not been taken by the opponents OF the inter
state law a text on the ruinous results OF the
laws operations.
Railroad circles were in q good deal OK commo-
ton yesterday over report that j. w Sher-
wood. superintendent of the c., L. st. l.. q c.,
and one of the most popular supsrintendents in
49,. LAH lie oai0n In
vestigation showed that there WAS no grounds
for such n rumor.
Every locomotive owned by the Beelire has
been in almost constant service for the last
sixty days. Seldom does the business of the
road keep and the movement as
heavy of late; and one good feature of the
business il that cars are loaded both ways.
Rates are also well maintained.
Receiver McNulta is RAPIDLY getting the
equipments the Wabash road proper in good
condition. When he took the property there
hundreds of scattered the
system sds-tracks which needed more or
less repair. These have bsen put through the
shops and are now nearly as good as new.
Harry Norton, purchasing agent of the Phila-
delphia g. Reading road who has been in the
city this week, before returning purchased 200
mules to be used in the mines of the Philade-
phia & Reading Coal Company. This company
has some 3, 900 mules ia service, and they die at
average rate of twenty Eve per month.
So great 10 the demand for coal that tine roads
are turning all their fat-cars, stone-cars. etc,
lana coal is being shipped to the North west and
West in immense quantities and the shipments
from the Clay county mines thus far this month
exceeding those of the corresponding period,
1856, fully so per cent.
The c.. H & D. people making a specially
Of handling their through freight traffic expedi-
Liously, and claim that the most direct lines be-
tween the East and the West are not excelled
by them in this direction, their through freight
trains often running at speed of Twenty-Five
miles Der hour. The Erie road ia helping the C.,
ii. ~ ID. out in the arrangement
A very satisfactory test of device for
regulating tue temperature or coaches was made
yesterday the sleeping coach Thistle" A
number OF prominent railroad witnessed its
operations, and were satisfied that il was val
uaole device for the purpose intended The
Pullman company have recently adopted the
device and will equip both parlor and sleeping
cars. IL s electrical device. and 10 regulated
by the atmosphere In the car.
During the month of September. 1897. thirty
one engineers on the c.. H. d d. sytem. haul
ing freight trains only, doing switching
any other service except hauling freight trains
aud taking on and setting off cars at stations
along the road, made total mileage of "a 173
miles. an average of 1888 miles per engine;
hauling 81. $40 loaded cars and 1903 empties;
total of 48, 1873 cars, 554 cars handled per
CINE in service; making car-mileage of /. 951,-
75S loads and 400. 703 empty; making a total car
mileage of 1852. 46l miles, giving an average of
26 $40 loads and 3 40 empties train mile.
The above figures two very billy divisions,
where small trains are handled, we'll the
level divisions where large trains are hauled.
of short-hau work between large towns and
functions The of the different di-
visions for the month ranged for loads alone,
from 16 to "a At Cincinnati station FIVE
switch engines were used during the day and
three during the night; 16 1853 loaded and ASH
smpties were handled: making q total of q, 424
cars; an average of ia per day. of which
4.649 cara were handled through the freight
house
General and miscellaneous.
Rumor again has it that the Missouri Pacific
and the Iron Mountain roads to be CONSOLE
dated.